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📣 impostervt

How would you build the Paycheck Protection Program website?


The PPP website went down again yesterday due to load. Let's say you worked at the Small Business Administration, and you were tasked with building the website.

The hard part: You've only got a week to build it, you know demand will be crazy.

The good news: Normal "process" is thrown out and you can do whatever you want. It just has to work.

What would you do, software and architecture wise?

PS - No, I do not work at the SBA and this isn't a hidden plea for help.

  👤 mister_hn Accepted Answer ✓
Doing as much as static as possible - maybe Hugo or Jekyll, coupled with CDN to increase workload.

For the data entry part, a form with JavaScript (Vanilla or jQuery, no fancy frameworks like React/Vue) and a backend taking care of the data handling. Backend should be as lean as possible and supported by a load balancer for more replicas.